While condemning the killing of BJP State secretary V Ramesh, a statement issued by the partyâ€™s national spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday also pointed to the attempted attack on BJP leader L K Advani during his visit to Madurai in 2011.

While the pipe bomb planted near Alampatti was fortunately detected in time, Sitharaman noted that all accused in the case had not been arrested, with at least two people still at large.

â€œIt is apparent that all these attacks are undertaken with detailed planning and after surveillance of the movements of these activists. Each of these attacks has been gruesome and brutal. These attacks and killings may be aimed at instilling fear in the minds of the people in general and of our party workers in particular,â€ the statement read and demanded a Special Investigation Team to probe each of the incidents.

Infuriated by Rameshâ€™s murder, hundreds of BJP workers staged a protest near Valluvar Kottam in Chennai on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu BJP president Pon Radhakrishnan said the party had called for a state-wide bandh on Monday to condemn the murder.

He told reporters that in the past year, three state-level leaders -- Aravinth Reddy, Murugan and Vellaiyan -- had been murdered and the assailants were still at large. This was apart from a number of leaders from other Hindu organisations who had been targeted.

A number of State BJP leaders have also been targeted over the past one year. This included Murugan, a BJP activist and former municipal Councillor in Ramanathapuram, Aravinth Reddy, secretary of the BJP medical cell in Vellore, and Pugazhenthi, state general council member in Nagapattinam.

Meanwhile, Salem Range DIG Sanjay Kumar said a special team has been formed to nab murderers.

Meanwhile, senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu alleged that the gruesome murder of Auditor V Ramesh, State general secretary of the party, was part of a greater conspiracy of fundamentalists targeting leaders of Hindu organisations with nationalistic bent in the State.

Naidu sought a SIT probe into the murder and urged Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to take quick steps to bring those behind the gruesome killing.

The incident was condemned by leaders across political parties, including by Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president B S Gnanadesikan and PMK leader S Ramadoss.

Yup, TN is becoming a new Jihadi hub because of uninterrupted secular rule for past decades....many BJP leaders have been eliminated by Islamists in the past...yet no arrests have been made because Islamic Jihadis are truly secular like corrupt DMK/AIADMK and con-gress!! It's simply Islamic text book procedure to instill fear in the hearts of Kaffirs!

Chennai, July 21 (IANS) A working committee member of the Tamil Nadu state BJP is battling for life after she set herself afire following the murder of a party state general secretary.
Rajarajeswari attempted self-immolation at Salem, 340 km from here, after V. Ramesh was hacked to death Friday night by unidentified people.
"She was disturbed over Ramesh's murder. She is in a serious condition in a hospital in Salem," K.T. Raghavan, spokesperson of the Tamil Nadu state BJP, told IANS.
He said Rajarajeshwari is a working committee member of the BJP's state unit and the organiser of the party's women's wing.
The state government has set up a special investigation team to unravel the murder and nab the killers.